Re: [Sound-open-firmware] [PATCH v2 3/5] ASoC: SOF: Add DT DSP device support

[Daniel Baluta <daniel.baluta@gmail.com>]

On Wed, Aug 7, 2019 at 6:22 PM Pierre-Louis Bossart
<pierre-louis.bossart@linux.intel.com> wrote:
>
>
> >>>> +static int sof_dt_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
> >>>> +{
> >>>> +     struct device *dev = &pdev->dev;
> >>>> +     const struct sof_dev_desc *desc;
> >>>> +     /*TODO: create a generic snd_soc_xxx_mach */
> >>>> +     struct snd_soc_acpi_mach *mach;
> >>>
> >>> I wonder if you really need to use the same structures. For Intel we get
> >>> absolutely zero info from the firmware so rely on an ACPI codec ID as a
> >>> key to find information on which firmware and topology to use, and which
> >>> machine driver to load. You could have all this information in a DT blob?
> >>
> >> Yes. I see your point. I will still need to make a generic structure for
> >> snd_soc_acpi_mach so that everyone can use sof_nocodec_setup function.
> >>
> >> Maybe something like this:
> >>
> >> struct snd_soc_mach {
> >>    union {
> >>    struct snd_soc_acpi_mach acpi_mach;
> >>    struct snd_soc_of_mach of_mach;
> >>    }
> >> };
> >>
> >> and then change the prototype of sof_nocodec_setup.
> >
> > Hi Pierre,
> >
> > I fixed all the comments except the one above. Replacing snd_soc_acpi_mach
> > with a generic snd_soc_mach is not trivial task.
> >
> > I wonder if it is acceptable to get the initial patches as they are
> > now and later switch to
> > generic ACPI/OF abstraction.
> >
> > Asking this because for the moment on the i.MX side I have only
> > implemented no codec
> > version and we don't probe any of the machine drivers we have.
> >
> > So, there is this only one member of snd_soc_acpi_mach that imx
> > version is making use of:
> >
> >    mach->drv_name = "sof-nocodec";
> >
> > That's all.
> >
> > I think the change as it is now is very clean and non-intrusive. Later
> > we will get options to
> > read firmware name and stuff from DT.
> >
> > Anyhow, I don't think we can get rid of snd_dev_desc structure on
> > i.MX. This will be used
> > to store the information read from DT:
> >
> > static struct sof_dev_desc sof_of_imx8qxp_desc = {
> > »       .default_fw_path = "imx/sof",
> > »       .default_tplg_path = "imx/sof-tplg",
> > »       .nocodec_fw_filename = "sof-imx8.ri",
> > »       .nocodec_tplg_filename = "sof-imx8-nocodec.tplg",
> > »       .ops = &sof_imx8_ops,
> > };
> >
> > For the moment we will only use the default values.
>
> Yes, that's fine for now. If you don't have a real machine driver then
> there's nothing urgent to change.
>
> Is the new version on GitHub?

Not yet, will push it today and ping you.